Apparatus for packing cigarettes and the like.



W. E. MOLINS.

APPARATUS FOR PACKING CIGARETTESAND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 3. 1916.

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WALTER EVERETT MOLINS, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR PACKING CIGARETTES AND TI-IELIKE;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 20, 19 16.

Application filed March 3, 1916. Serial No. 81,930.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WALTER EVERETT MoLINs, a citizen of the United States of 7 America, residing in London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Packing Cigarettes and the like, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to apparatus for packing cigarettes and the like and a main Object of the invention consists in forming the filling piece for directing the articles into the package in such a manner as to permit a free passage through it of the carrier whichrfeeds forward the articles to be packed. Owing to this free passage for the carrier, a continuous, uninterrupted feed of the articles to be packed is possible, such continuous feed being provided for by the use of an endless band having carriers at fixed intervals as the feeding means.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which show one form of the invention.

Figure 1 is a diagrammatic perspective view of the essential parts of the apparatus; Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the filling piece; and Fig. 3 is a similar view of a modified form of filling piece.

The slightly tapering filling piece 1 of known shape, which in the construction shown lies on the feed table 2, is provided with a slot 3, through which the shaft 4 of the carrier 6 fixed to the continuously moving band 5 can project freely into the filling piece. The carriers are arranged at suitable intervals from each other on the endless band 5 and are adapted to push the cigarettes or other articles to be packed through the filling piece into the package 7 destined to receive them, which is arranged directly behind the latter, or can be slipped over its smaller end, as shown. As the carriers con tinue to move forward, the cigarettes and the package into which they have been fed are also carried forward and the package with its contents may then be removed from the carriers in any convenient or known manner.

Instead of the filling piece being provided simply with a. slot for the free passage of the carrier, one of its sides may be omitted altogether, as shown, for example, in Fig. 3. In this case the table 2 may form the miss ing side of the filling piece.

Having thus described the said invention and the best means I know of carrying the same into practical eifect,

I claim 1. In a cigarette packing machine, the combination with a traveling band, of carriers on said band, and a filling piece so formed that the carriers may pass therethrough and deliver cigarettes to a box previously placed on the filling piece.

2. In a cigarette packing machine, the combination with a traveling band, of carriers on said band, and a box-holding fillingcombination with a traveling band,- of carriers on said band for conveying a desired number of loose cigarettes through a channel formed by guides on'each side of the carriers, and a tapered filling-piece so formed that the moving carrier may pass therethrough at the same time filling and removing a box previously placed filling-piece.

5. In a cigarette packing machine, the combination with a traveling band, of carriers on said band for conveying a desired on the number of loose cigarettes through a channel formed by guides on each side of the carriers, and a filling-piece formed with a slit in its side so that the moving carriers may pass therethrough at the same time filling and removing a box previously placed on the filling-piece. 1

6. In a cigarette packing machine, the combination with a traveling band, of carriers on said band for conveying a desired number of loose cigarettes through achannel formed by guides on each side, of the carriers, and a tapered filling-piece formed with a slit in its side so that the moving carrier may pass therethrough at the same time filling and removing a box previously placed.

on the fillin -piece.

7. In a cigarette packing machine, the

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combination With a traveling band, of carriers on said band, and a box-holding fillingpiece to Which said carriers deliver, said filling-piece having a passage longitudinally thereof to permit the carriers to pass there through. 1

8. In a cigarette packing machine, the combination With a traveling band, of carriers on said band, and a box-holding fillingpiece to which said carriers deliver, said filling-piece having a centrally disposed slot in the bottom thereof to permit the carriers to pass therethrough.

9. In a cigarette packing machine, the combination With a slotted table, a traveling band beneath said table, carriers on said band projecting upwardly through thetable slot, and a box-holding filling-piece adjacent WALTER EVERETT MoLrNs.

WVitnesses WVlLLIAM HoLMEs H. J OLY.

Gopiea of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner or Patents.

' Washington, D. G. 

